Discover how free, scannable technology can enrich learning and captivate students, including use of QR codes and Augmented Reality to promote hands-on learning, creativity, and critical thinking.
This book gives teachers the know-how to develop standards-aligned STEM projects in all K-5 content areas with confidence. It includes real-world vignettes, sample lessons and templates, discussion questions, and practical action steps.
Fostering Creativity and Innovation in the Elementary Classroom
This book shares the stories of innovative learning opportunities that discuss hands-on and technology-based activities that promote the development of 21st century skills, preparing students for college, career, and beyond.
Suitable for those who have been searching for effective strategies to meet the needs of learning challenged students, this third edition addresses the causes of common learning disabilities and provides alternative instructional strategies to ensure learning occurs.
This book explains educational theories such as Growth Mindsets and Panksepp's SEEKING system, neurological breakthroughs on the brain's internal systems, and strategies that activate student thinking and target learning intentions.
This book offers a model of action for principals, school leaders and teachers, enabling them to build a collaborative culture through learning together and meeting students' needs as a team.
You can find hundreds of literacy lessons in hundreds of places-but none of them will do for students what the ones in this book do. What's the magic bullet? Potent integration. Divided into five weeklong learning sequences, the 50 lessons span the ELA standards, bringing a Monday-through-Friday clarity to the sometimes mysterious process of skill-building through demonstrations and practice. Follow each sequence and week by week, you'll build the instructional potency to help students achieve a year's worth of growth as you integrate: Writing Narratives with Identifying Sensory Words in Text Research with Identifying Topic and Details Opinion Writing with Close Reading for Text Evidence Comparing and Contrasting with Publishing Using Digital Tools Informative Writing with Use of Text Features Each of the 50 lessons is eminently dippable. But if you want to do more extended instructional planning, there are lots of additional tools-including lists of mentor texts, and If/Then and Extending-the-Work charts-within the book and on the companion website: www.corwin.com/commoncorecompanion.
75 Practical Strategies for Linking Assessment, Instruction, and Learning
In this essential resource, science educator Page Keeley provides teachers with guidance, suggestions and techniques for using formative assessment to improve teaching and learning in the science classroom. Based on the knowledge that good assessment practices are integral to measuring and documenting student achievement as well as informing teaching and learning, the author addresses the need to balance opportunity to learn, which includes assessment for learning, with assessment of learning. She then identifies and describes a rich and varied repertoire of purposeful strategies that weave assessment throughout instruction and learning. These techniques will help teachers become more aware of the different ideas students bring to their learning, see the connections between students' thinking and the specific ideas included in standards, and provide learning experiences that build a bridge between their students' thinking and accepted scientific ideas.
Reading, Writing, Thinking, and Doing . . . Content Area by Content Area
This Is Disciplinary Literacy gives students entrance to the global communities of practice, and provides schools, districts, and teachers with a proven approach that makes college-and-career-readiness a reality.
